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Electronic health records have a crucial role for communication and information management in health care organizations. Electronic health records have improved the access to up-dated medical information at the point-of-care, but they have also been linked to usability issues and user problems. This paper presents a study about the user experience among health care professionals regarding an electronic health record system in Norway. Qualitative research methods were used, with interviews and observations made at a university hospital, where 14 clinical end-users of an electronic health record system contributed. The aim was to study the user experiences and the user satisfaction regarding the system. The study concluded that the health care professionals in general were satisfied with the system, but they had to make some work arounds to efficiently carry out care in their daily work practice.
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The authors thank the informants of the study for their disinterested contribution. Special thanks to the Head of the hospital departments for collaboration in the organization of the data collection. Financial support was provided by the Faculty of Engineering and Science at the University of Agder in Norway through grant number 53965 and from the research project 3P- Patients and Professionals in Productive Teams with grant number 243857 from Helseforsk [23, 24].
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Smaradottir, B.F., Fensli, R.W. (2020). User Experiences and Satisfaction with an Electronic Health Record System. In: Ahram, T., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Usability and User Experience. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 972. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19135-1_8
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